ON EMERY: Norrace Todd of Clearwater, Fla., writes Friday:
“Hotel Emery, 1946, I recall that Lester Edwards, president of the
Northeast Container Corp., lived in the penthouse atop the hotel.
It was still a hotel in 1950 as we spent our second night of
marriage there. For a kid from Port Allegany, Bradford was really a
big city.”

MEMORY LANE: Our little item about Gallico Park sparked a memory
for one woman about the square dances held at the Smethport area
park.

Her uncle lived almost in Crosby in the stone house and, on
Saturday nights, would ride his mule down to call the square
dances. She also remembers “good times” when her mother would play
the piano and her uncle would play the violin at the park.

We also heard from Sallie (Haynes) Taylor: “Oh, do I remember
dancing to the music of Happy, Ed and Jack. What memories. I also
remember dancing to the music of a band at the Armory. I don’t
recall the name of the band but I remember that Bruce Weldy was the
bass player and I think he called the square dances.”

“My brother, Dick, Bev Weldy and I, along with many others,
loved to square dance there.

“I can hear the square dance calls in my mind today. We
sometimes went to square dances on the back road to Limestone. Jack
Wells and Bob Coy played in Bradford, too.

“My memory is failing me. Were they in the same band with Bruce
Weldy? I know Dave and Helen Kaber were band members … not sure of
the name of their band. Dave played the spoons sometimes. They were
our neighbors on Burnside Avenue and later on Cornen Street.

“I remember as a teen-ager, while working at the Foster Brook
Tastee Freez, having breakfast meetings occasionally in the
restaurant at the Emery Hotel.

“Yes, how elegant it was. Marion Wilde, manager of the Tastee
Freez, and Walter Klussmann, owner of the Tastee Freez and Bradco
Milk Co., were special mentors to this Bradford girl and many other
young people who worked there over the years.”

TODAY’S QUOTE: “If the First Amendment means anything, it means
that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his
own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch,” said
Thurgood Marshall, former U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1969.